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2719
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30

Isabel Blasco-Costa publication distribution in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Isabel Blasco-Costa sits on this spectrum.

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29 publications 442+

This scientist: 73 publications — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 442 publications or more.

Isabel Blasco-Costa D-index placement in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Animal Science and Veterinary scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Isabel Blasco-Costa sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 28 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 77 D-Index or more.

Overview

Isabel Blasco-Costa is affiliated with the Natural History Museum of Geneva in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant attention to ecological topics.

The scientist's research contributions cover a range of subfields including ecology, genetics, ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics, ecological modeling, and aquatic science.

Their main research topics include:

  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Myxozoan Parasites in Aquatic Species
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior

Recent representative publications by Isabel Blasco-Costa are:

  • Next-generation cophylogeny: unravelling eco-evolutionary processes, 2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Native and invasive hosts play different roles in host-parasite networks, 2020, Ecography
  • Random Tanglegram Partitions (Random TaPas): An Alexandrian Approach to the Cophylogenetic Gordian Knot, 2020, Systematic Biology
  • Fuzzy quantification of common and rare species in ecological communities (FuzzyQ), 2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Sensitivity of bipartite network analyses to incomplete sampling and taxonomic uncertainty, 2023, Ecology

Frequent co-authors in their works include:

  • Juan Antonio Balbuena
  • Cristina Llopis-Belenguer
  • Volodimir Sarabeev
  • Rune Knudsen
  • Jukka Jokela

Isabel Blasco-Costa has published several studies in journals such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • International Journal for Parasitology
  • Journal of Helminthology
  • Molecular Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • PACo: A Novel Procrustes Application to Cophylogenetic Analysis

    Juan Antonio Balbuena;Raúl Míguez-Lozano;Isabel Blasco-Costa

  • Molecular approaches to trematode systematics: ‘best practice’ and implications for future study

    Isabel Blasco-Costa;Scott C. Cutmore;Terrence L. Miller;Matthew J. Nolan

  • Parasite life-cycle studies: a plea to resurrect an old parasitological tradition

    I Blasco-Costa;R Poulin

  • Fish pathogens near the Arctic Circle: molecular, morphological and ecological evidence for unexpected diversity of Diplostomum (Digenea: Diplostomidae) in Iceland.

    Isabel Blasco-Costa;Anna Faltýnková;Simona Georgieva;Karl Skírnisson

  • Molecular phylogeny of Neotropical monogeneans (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea) from catfishes (Siluriformes)

    Carlos A Mendoza-Palmero;Isabel Blasco-Costa;Isabel Blasco-Costa;Tomáš Scholz

  • Host traits explain the genetic structure of parasites: a meta-analysis.

    Isabel Blasco-Costa;Robert Poulin

  • Life History, Systematics and Evolution of the Diplostomoidea Poirier, 1886: Progress, Promises and Challenges Emerging From Molecular Studies.

    Isabel Blasco-Costa;Sean A Locke

  • Echinostoma 'revolutum' (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) species complex revisited: species delimitation based on novel molecular and morphological data gathered in Europe

    Simona Georgieva;Simona Georgieva;Anna Faltýnková;Rebecca Brown;Rebecca Brown;Isabel Blasco-Costa;Isabel Blasco-Costa

  • Swimming against the current: genetic structure, host mobility and the drift paradox in trematode parasites.

    I. Blasco‐Costa;I. Blasco‐Costa;J. M. Waters;R. Poulin

  • A first insight into the barcodes for African diplostomids (Digenea: Diplostomidae): brain parasites in Clarias gariepinus (Siluriformes: Clariidae).

    Fred D. Chibwana;Isabel Blasco-Costa;Simona Georgieva;Simona Georgieva;Kenneth M. Hosea

  • Interrelationships of the Haploporinae (Digenea: Haploporidae): a molecular test of the taxonomic framework based on morphology.

    Isabel Blasco-Costa;Juan A. Balbuena;Aneta Kostadinova;Aneta Kostadinova;Peter D. Olson

  • Life cycles, molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of the 'pygmaeus' microphallids (Digenea: Microphallidae): widespread parasites of marine and coastal birds in the Holarctic.

    Kirill V. Galaktionov;Isabel Blasco-Costa;Peter D. Olson

  • Species of Apatemon Szidat, 1928 and Australapatemon Sudarikov, 1959 (Trematoda: Strigeidae) from New Zealand: linking and characterising life cycle stages with morphology and molecules.

    Isabel Blasco-Costa;Robert Poulin;Bronwen Presswell

  • Molecular phylogeny of species of Ligophorus (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae) and their affinities within the Dactylogyridae

    Isabel Blasco-Costa;Raúl Míguez-Lozano;Volodimir Sarabeev;Juan Antonio Balbuena

  • Integrating parasitology and marine ecology: Seven challenges towards greater synergy

    Robert Poulin;Isabel Blasco-Costa;Haseeb S. Randhawa

  • Upstream-downstream gradient in infection levels by fish parasites: a common river pattern?

    Isabel Blasco-Costa;Anson V. Koehler;Alice Martin;Robert Poulin

  • Robinia aurata n. g., n. sp. (Digenea: Hemiuridae) from the mugilid Liza aurata with a molecular confirmation of its position within the Hemiuroidea.

    P. Pankov;B. L. Webster;I. Blasco-Costa;D. I. Gibson

  • A new genus and two new species of dactylogyrid monogeneans from gills of Neotropical catfishes (Siluriformes: Doradidae and Loricariidae)

    Aline Angelina Acosta;Tomáš Scholz;Isabel Blasco-Costa;Philippe Vieira Alves;Philippe Vieira Alves

  • Morphological description and molecular analyses of Tylodelphys sp. (Trematoda: Diplostomidae) newly recorded from the freshwater fish Gobiomorphus cotidianus (common bully) in New Zealand

    I. Blasco-Costa;R. Poulin;B. Presswell

  • Molecules and morphology reveal cryptic variation among digeneans infecting sympatric mullets in the Mediterranean.

    I. Blasco-Costa;J. A. Balbuena;J. A. Raga;A. Kostadinova

  • Two new species of Maritrema Nicoll, 1907 (Digenea: Microphallidae) from New Zealand: morphological and molecular characterisation

    Bronwen Presswell;Isabel Blasco-Costa;Aneta Kostadinova

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Poulin
Robert Poulin University of Otago
Tomáš Scholz
Tomáš Scholz Czech Academy of Sciences
Juan Antonio Raga
Juan Antonio Raga University of Valencia
David I. Gibson
David I. Gibson Natural History Museum
Rune Knudsen
Rune Knudsen University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Serge Morand
Serge Morand Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Francesco de Bello
Francesco de Bello Spanish National Research Council
Jukka Jokela
Jukka Jokela Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Karl Skírnisson
Karl Skírnisson University of Iceland
Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León
Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León National Autonomous University of Mexico

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